Fab Killjoy

Happy Indigenous People’s Day! I present to you, my annual post

August 14th is Navajo Code Talkers Day May you be the code that makes us unbreakable against overwhelming odds.

There is something so dystopia about a white rich woman lounging in her chair with her legs crossed talking about pipelines and settler colonialism and genocide when the living, breathing Natives are telling her "Hi, we're still here and how you talk about us is disrespectful af"

Anyways instead of supporting a non Native British white woman donate your money instead to help fund a Two Spirit powwow. Give your money to actual Indigenous communities, not Philosophy Tube gofund.me/c44b9f5e

Oh here come all the white leftists whitesplaining to Natives about how a white woman told them it's ACTUALLY TOTALLY OKAY to call us Indians. like do you clowns even fucking hear yourselves?

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Mahmoud Khalil released his first statement since he was unlawfully detained by ICE for his activism in support of Palestinian rights, and it's a must-read.

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, etc.

NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes **for work that’s been done.** One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

When I run out of Bobby Broccoli videos

1. After a federal judge ruled that websites containing LGBTQ+ information at the CDC must be restored, the Trump administration did so... but then also added snide and incorrect anti-trans headers to them. The latest from new EITM writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Over 2,000 webpages containing LGBTQ+ information have been removed from federal government websites.

NPS [Feb 12] -- Natl Park Service scrubs "TQ+" from Stonewall National LGBTQ+ Monument in Christopher Park & the accompanying text. Monument to a riot launched by trans women of color like Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P Johnson reads "LGB." [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬] [HT @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social‬]

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

President Trump revoked an extension of Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for many people from Venezuela who fled violence, economic collapse, and repression. TPS is a critical protection for the more than 600,000 Venezuelans who contribute to our communities and our economy.

Major news: Donald Trump has just issued a trans military ban, with much of the details left to Hegseth. It states that being trans is incompatible with "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" I know many military trans people who have served admirably for decades. Shameful.

We all need to be told to chill out sometimes